This is all interesting food for thought. I can't say I am thrilled by what that town is doing, but I can imagine it is better than the status quo ante. It ma

This is all interesting food for thought. I can't say I am thrilled by what that town is doing, but I can imagine it is better than the status quo ante. It makes you wonder if the nation-state model of government has been extended into places where earlier, tribal models would have been less bad. And Mexico isn't even much of a failure. Here is the kind of thing that makes me quesy: Its ban on political parties, meanwhile, has been upheld by the courts, which have confirmed its right not to participate in local, state or federal elections. OK, I see why they have the ban. But it also to curtails the right of the individual citizens to vote. Should any collective really have that right in a democracy?